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Government Linux Gaming Supercomputer
pupkick writes "Wired news has a story about a government supercomputer running Linux that 'pits two opposing teams of soldiers against one another in a fight for control over a city under siege.'"
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http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/2 0/2013233&tid=126&tid=137&tid=185&tid= 14
They need to double check their facts:
From the story:one at the Maui High Performance Computing Center in Hawaii and the other at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio
From Photo Gallery: thanks to two supercomputers in Virginia and Hawaii.
...Cougaar.
There are a bunch of distributed agents scattered around lots of machines; some use more resources than others, and the system moves them from machine to machine in response to high loads. Nifty stuff, and open source - BSD licensed!
The Army reading list
No, that was G-l-o-b-a-l thermo nuclear war.
It seems the only way to win, is not to play the game.
Would you like to play a nice game of chess? (y/n)
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
There are actually many games that are either written for or will run on Linux. Just go to the sourceforge games section and see for yourself.
Linux NetworxTM EvolocityTM cluster supercomputer to study smallpox genomics in light of the threat of possible bioterror attacks here
The Linux open-source operating system powers a new government supercomputer that will help meteorologists forecast the weather more accurately. here
New SGI supercomputer to scale Linux to 1,024 CPUs
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications will use it for research here
And the list goes on and on.
Please login to access my lawn
The idea is not that new, the ARMY has some warehouses full of tank sims plugged into a central servers (usually IRIX/SGI). It is pretty cool to place several companies in there with some geeks throwing computer tanks/rpg's/crunchies etc. at you. One of the few things I did in the ARMY that was actually in the brochure :)
Saying Java is nice because it works on all OS's is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders.
Not exactly a dupe, because it is referring to a different article, but this article is discussing the same project that was covered Wednesday in The War of the Virtual Worlds
If I don't put anything here, will anyone recognize me anymore?
Yes, it was the APCs that ran over the crowd. The footage of that didn't make it out of China. I weep
when I think of the courage of that guy before the tank. Had the students won, a peaceful unification of China would have been possible. Now China will obtain a modern military before political reform and inevitably be tempted to use it. This path will ruin our new century.